
Tony Benn
Department: Acting
Biography
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.
Known For

Tony Benn: Labour's Lost Leader
2014

Laissez-faire
2015

Cabinet Confidential
2001

How to Be Prime Minister
1996

Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003

Ethos
2011

The Battle of Orgreave
2002

News from Durham
1983

Tony Benn: Will and Testament
2014

Sicko
2007

Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn
1995

Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
1995

London: The Modern Babylon
2012

The Spirit of '45
2013

Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
2012

Beyond and Behind the Vote
1984

The Scar
1997

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel
2011

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999

The Red and the Blue
1983

Shades
1982

Blackpool Wakes
1989

Missing Presumed Wiped
2001

Harold Wilson: A Life
1995

Anyone for Pennis?
1995

Taking Liberties
2007

Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009

13 Hours That Saved Britain
2011

Unlawful Killing
2011

Entertaining the Troops
2011

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
2012

Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
2013

Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
2013

We Are Many
2014

The Atom: A Love Affair
2019

The Wilderness Years
1995

Timeshift
2002

Timeshift
2002

Wasted Windfall
1994

Banned in the UK
2005

Question Time
1979

HARDtalk
1997

Horizon
1964

Late Night Line-Up
1964

The Money Programme
1966

One Pair of Eyes
1967

This Week
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Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

Weekend World
1972

Open Space
1983

Open To Question
1984

Wogan
1982

Arena
1975

Panorama
1953

After Dark
1987

Open Air
1986

How We Used To Live
1968

Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
1993

The Late Show
1988

The Big Story
1993

Clive Anderson Talks Back
1989

A Week in Politics
1983

World in Action
1963

American Masters
1986

Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun
1999

Clarkson's Car Years
2000

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
2002

Designing The Decades
2003

Later... with Jools Holland
1992

This Week
2003

The Mark Steel Lectures
2003

Turning Points of History
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Folk Britannia
2006

30 Minutes
2004

Timeshift
2002

Newsnight
1980

The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008

The Book Show
2006

The Late Edition
2005

Daily Politics
2003

The Sunday Programme
1994

The Sunday Edition
2006

GMTV
1993

Timewatch
1982

Beyond A Joke
2009

The Week We Went To War
2009

Democracy Now!
2001

The Story of British Pathe
2011

Paul O Grady's Working Britain
2013

In Confidence
2010